William D. Anton This is Me

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1. 1. Reducing Test Anxiety Leads to Better Performance

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   Published on: 7/12/2001   Last Visited: 7/18/2002

   "There's a part of them that believes that anxiety makes them study better," said William D. Anton, director of USF's Counseling Center, which offers several workshops and other programs throughout the year to help students deal with text anxiety. "But most of the research shows reducing anxiety actually improves performance."
   
   Some students are even afraid of reducing anxiety, wrongly thinking that it gives them an edge. "If you can reduce anxiety, you can enhance performance," Anton said.
   
   USF researchers also examine the phenomenon of "study anxiety" and have created an inventory to measure how well people will actually study. Study anxiety interferes with concentration and leads to procrastination.
   
   Students are not the only ones affected. Research shows that text anxiety is also a big predictor of job performance later in life. The College Adjustment Scale, which Anton developed, is one of the best predictors of academic persistence and performance and can predict job retention, according to Anton.

2. 2. APP: Facing our Fears: FACING OUR FEARS: Phobias begin before we know it

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   Published on: 4/25/2001   Last Visited: 4/25/2001

   When a baby is born , it has a certain intensity level to experience emotions , said Bill Anton , a clinical psychologist at the University of South Florida who treats fear and anxiety. If you took the same exact family context and put a calm baby and a hyper baby into the same context , they''d learn different things , because they''d react differently to what occurs. The biological predisposition is always there..
   
   Ignorance is fear.
   
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   Today''s young will likely deal with life''s fears less stoically than the so-called greatest generation , said Anton , the University of South Florida psychologist. Present-day seniors were raised at a time when public acknowledgment of fear was controlled by outside forces , such as religion , morality and privacy , he said. In today''s tell-all talk show milieu , those forces have ebbed , making it more acceptable to express fear. Such disclosure , argues Anton , could ultimately lead to less deeply held fears in the decades to come.
   
   from the Asbury Park Press Published on October 30 , 2000.
   
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3. 3. Reducing Test Anxiety Leads to Better Performance

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   Published on: 4/24/2001   Last Visited: 2/5/2002

   "There's a part of them that believes that anxiety makes them study better," said William D. Anton, director of USF's Counseling Center, which offers several workshops and other programs throughout the year to help students deal with text anxiety. "But most of the research shows reducing anxiety actually improves performance."
   
   Some students are even afraid of reducing anxiety, wrongly thinking that it gives them an edge. "If you can reduce anxiety, you can enhance performance," Anton said.
   
   USF researchers also examine the phenomenon of "study anxiety" and have created an inventory to measure how well people will actually study. Study anxiety interferes with concentration and leads to procrastination.
   
   Students are not the only ones affected. Research shows that text anxiety is also a big predictor of job performance later in life. The College Adjustment Scale, which Anton developed, is one of the best predictors of academic persistence and performance and can predict job retention, according to Anton.